ChipRatio chip calculator for home poker games
Pick your game, players, and buy-in. Get even stacks, chip values that make sense, and the blinds - free forever.
Cash game or tournament?
In a cash game chips are money. Everyone buys in for the same amount, and each color has a price: white 10¢, red 50¢, and so on. You can cash out any time, and the blinds never change. In a tournament chips are just points. Everyone pays in once, starts with the same stack, the blinds go up on a timer, and play ends when one player has every chip.
Why the numbers are always round
Dividing a $20 buy-in by a pile of chips gives answers like 28¢ a chip, which nobody can make change with. ChipRatio goes the other way. It only considers chip prices that are real money (5¢, 10¢, 25¢, 50¢, $1, $5 ...), keeps the ratios printed on your chips, and picks the price that deals the tidiest stack. Counts come out in numbers you can count from a rack, tournament stacks land on 500 or 1,000 rather than 1,096, and blinds follow the familiar 5/10, 10/20, 25/50 ladder.
How it splits your chips
Every player gets an identical stack, so for each color the most anyone can receive is the number in the case divided by the player count. Inside that limit ChipRatio checks every stack that adds up to your buy-in and keeps the best one: plenty of the smallest chip for blinds, fewer of each bigger one, and around 30 chips in total. It also tells you what stays in the case and how many rebuys that covers.
Questions people actually ask
How many chips should each player start with?
About 30 is the sweet spot for a home game: enough to bet in small steps, not so many that stacks topple. Want bigger or smaller stacks? Change it under More options.
What if my chips cannot make my buy-in exactly?
ChipRatio tries every sensible chip price first, so this is rare. When a case really cannot do it (too few chips for too many players), it uses the closest round amount it can deal evenly and tells you why.
My chips have no numbers printed on them. What do I enter?
Use the classic convention: white 1, red 5, green 25, black 100. For a cash game the printed numbers only set the ratio between colors, ChipRatio picks the real prices.
Do you store my chip set or track me?
No accounts, no servers, no analytics for sale. Your last set is saved in your own browser so it is there next game night.
Is this a gambling app?
No. ChipRatio divides a chip case. It does not track pots, winnings, or hold any money.